Risk analysis of poultry feed production using fuzzy FMEA

The intensity growth of chicken meat consumption in Indonesia pulls the demand of poultry feed products. Producers of poultry feed try to fulfil this higher demand. The production lines become one of critical process for succeeding the company to meet the demand. Potential failures that threat the stability and continuity of production process should be minimized. All potential failures could be considered as risk. It becomes important for the company to identify the risk that potentially threat their production process. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a robust methodology that can be used to identify, classify, and analyze potential risk. This research aims to utilize FMEA methodology to analyze the risk in the poultry production process. Handling the limitation of traditional FMEA in assessing the risk score through expert judgement, this research applies fuzzy FMEA in its methodology. There are 89 potential risks of poultry feed production could be identified by applying Fuzzy FMEA. Mitigation efforts are prioritized on 39 corrective risks. Having accurate risk analysis will enable the company to develop properly mitigation efforts and securing their production process to meet the demand schedule. (C) 2015 Published by Elsevier B.V.